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Having grown up in the Seattle area (now in SF since after college) I can’t say I’m surprised the Pacific NW is where anti-vaccination parents would cluster to
by randomacct3847 8y ago
Having grown up in the Seattle area (now in SF since after college) I can’t say I’m surprised the Pacific NW is where anti-vaccination parents would cluster to create an epidemic. There’s the right mix of pseudo-intellects, granola hippies, and helicopter parenting to make it all so unsurprising
- pnw_hazor 8y ago"'Sad reality': Handful of WA measles outbreak sites are in Russian-speaking communities" https://komonews.com/news/local/sad-reality-handful-of-wa-measles-outbreak-sites-are-in-russian-speaking-communities https://komonews.com/news/local/sad-reality-handful-of-wa-me...
- bitcoinmoney 8y agoWhat’s granola hippies?
- randomacct3847 8y agoHippies that eat granola. It’s just used to describe the kind of person that wears Patagonia, goes on weekend hikes in their hiking shoes and cargo pants, buys organic, probably a vegan, and eats granola/trail mix.
- jfoutz 8y agoPejorative. In context I’d say they would take magic mushrooms, because they are natural. But they would avoid lsd, because that’s chemicals. Sorry for the definition by example, can’t think of an obvious definition, but hopefully gets the idea across.
- rootusrootus 8y agoAntivaxxers are pretty evenly distributed across the ideological spectrum.
- roywiggins 8y agoThere's a cluster of antivaxx sentiment in the Minnesotan Somali community. They're also an autism hot spot, and after that was noticed their fears were fanned by Andrew Wakefield etc. https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/08/measles-vaccines-somali/ https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/08/measles-vaccines-somali/